GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3050

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce RTX 3050, which comes with clock speeds of 1552 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 2560 SPUs along with 80 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		180 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (38%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti will be 14% quicker than the GeForce RTX 3050 overall, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		262144 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (14%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti should be quite a bit (approximately 97%) better at AF than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		244264 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 120104 (97%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is superior to the GeForce RTX 3050, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		102848 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 53184 (107%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.